Surprisingly whoever approved of Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven thought that it was a great idea and decided to do it again with Mars of Destruction. And it was only released a mere seven months after Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven. And after doing some reading into how this was made it seems both Skelter+Heaven and Mars of Destruction seem to overlap in how they came to be. The plot what little there is starts soon after a space shuttle returns from a mission to Mars in the far off year of 2010 ends up being destroyed in the Earths atmosphere. Soon afterwards strange monsters called Ancients began to appear around Tokyo. A group of specialists taught to fight the Ancients must stop them before they destroy the human race. And just like Skelter+Heaven the plot in this is confusing if you dont know about or havent played the visual novel. And unlike Skelter+Heaven which seemed to be original animation this OVA is a compilation of all the animated cutscenes from the game its based on. The company behind the game Idea Factory thought that it was a good idea to take the games animated cutscenes and slap them onto a DVD. If this was an unlockable in the game or was a DVD that came with the Special Edition of the game in a higher resolution so that fans could enjoy them this wouldnt have had the infamous reception that it got. But having its own DVD release? Why? As a promotional tool for the game it isnt very good. The scenes arent even edited together well looking like a compilation that some random person would have put together in 2007 for their YouTube channel. And top top the whole thing off the OVA has poorly rendered classical music put over it. Im assuming that this was release as a cash grab for fans to eat up but there could have been a better way like the previously mention possiblity for a Special Edition of the game. Somehow the animation is both better and worse than Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven. Better in that there are more frames of animation and the characters overall look better but the perspective is complete trash. There was even one instance where a character turns around but their perspective suddenly changes half way through. I would say that its so poorly animated that you have to wonder how no one noticed how bad it looks but I imagine the budget and constraints probably didnt allow for a second pass. Since this thing is a compilation of cutscenes 95 of the plot is missing so yet again I had to do some research into what the game was about. And just like Skelter+Heaven this is an Evangelion ripoff right down to the main character having a father that forced him into fighting giant monsters in a mech. I dont know how you ripoff Evangelion twice because not only are you competing with something much better with Evangelion but youre just competing with yourself and whoever bought this because they liked the other game theyre going to noticed the similarities right off the bat. Everything else about the PS2 game just makes it seem like your standard visual novel. I dont speak or read Japanese so I cant exactly attest to its quality but I imagine that it at least fleshed out the story more than in the OVA even if the quality seems off. But from the plot description and the fact that this is an Evangelion ripoff I think I know what to expect from the plot. Just like Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven this one is just painful watch. It isnt even funny bad like a lot of other infamously awful anime. If it werent for that that this was less than 20 minutes I probably would have never even bothered. Avoid at all costs.